I do what I do because of Walt Disney – his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. – John Lasseter
Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. – John Ortberg
In a sense, all of my books have been about a ‘poisonous pedagogy,’ which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems. – John Bradshaw
The ‘Occupy’ movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning ‘the corporation as a person,’ and some legislators are supporting that concept. – John Battelle
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His ‘Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini’ was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. – Joni Mitchell
The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing. – April Winchell
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. – Gus Van Sant
However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. – David Bowie
I like to remind the contestants where they are by playing the ‘Bake Off’ theme tune on my phone as they walk into the tent. They freak out, as it suddenly dawns on them that they’re on the show. – Paul Hollywood
I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people. – Drummond Money-Coutts
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written. – Maurice Jarre
My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting. – Nicole Richie
We don’t attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. – James Laughlin
It’s based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along. – Jami Gertz
